Privileges of English merchants, temp. Edward III (1327–1377) to temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including a map of the city of Hamburg and the river Elbe (63r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Flemish, Anglo-Norman French, Flemish, English, French
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Flemish, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
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This is the only surviving copy of John Tynemouth’s Sanctilogium, a collection of lives of British saints arranged in calendrical order from January. It is currently bound in two volumes. The lives are frequently accompanied by short prayers to the saints and occasionally by genealogies in the...
Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
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Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Miscellaneous historical, genealogical and heraldic papers, including copies of the charters of Earl’s Colne Priory (5r–18v), Hatfield Peverel Priory (42r–48v) and Coggeshall Abbey (49r–57r); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum, Ymagines historiarum and Opuscula (73r–80v: excerpts); Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum (188r–190r: excerpts); and Thomas Jenyns’ Book of Arms (236r–251v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English and Anglo-Norman French; Italian (122r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century